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DCP-LETT-12090

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
6 June [1879]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club, Meldola papers)
Summary:

Suggests he write to Ernst Krause about publication of translation of Fritz Müller’s paper. FM’s view of mutual protection is quite new to CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
19 [June 1879]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Shares RM’s misgivings about Fritz Müller’s mutually protecting mimics. Would expect bird’s response to distasteful caterpillars to be instinctive. Believes J. J. Weir or Thomas Belt may have investigated the point.

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